Dr Manish Khokhar

  Increasing blood pressure affects one million people all over the world and comes to the top in the cause of death. blood pressure doubles the risk of heart disease, coronary disease, congestive heart disease, stroke, kidney failure, and peripheral artery disease. Though blood pressure lowering medication decrease risk. Epidemiology Blood pressure increases with age and vary among populations and even in the same country. S ystolic blood pressure increases with age >60 years and diastolic blood pressure is going to decrease after age 55. So, widening the pulse pressure. In the united-state increasing high blood pressure is due to obesity. The prevalence of blood pressure and stroke mortality is higher. Environmental and genetic factors may contribute to local and racial variations in hypertensive prevalence. Now, people are living in a more urbanized area so their lifestyle changes and leads to obesity. 60% of hypertensive are 20% overweight . High sodium intake an...

Diabetes mellitus Diabetes mellitus is a group of metabolic disorders that manifests as increase glucose in the blood. Diabetes mellitus has many types and multiple etiology, mainly gene and environmental factors. There are mainly three reasons for increase blood glucose 1 . decrease insulin secretion 2 . Decrease glucose utilization 3 .increase production of glucose. Diabetes mellitus is a leading cause of the end-stage renal disease (ESRD), no traumatic lower-limb amputations, and adult blindness It is a high risk of cardiovascular disease. Classification DM is classified as a type 1 DM and type 2 DM . however, other types of diabetes in which molecular pathogenesis is better understood and associated with a single gene defect. Type 1 DM develops due to autoimmunity against beta cells which produce insulin so there is near no insulin. Type 2 DM develops due to multiple causes by insulin resistance, impaired insulin secretion, and increased liver glucose production. Typ...

O besity is a worldwide issue in the present movement so it is so important to know about overview of obesity and its complication on health like heart disease, blood pressure(BP), cancer and kidney disease you can find an article on obesity facts overview, treatment, complication, and management.it is the world's deadliest disease. Our food supply is intermittent so our body has a specialized cell called Fat cell which stores energy and gives it back when needed during starvation. Due to  the  sedentary lifestyle and presence of nutritional abundance genetic system is altered, lead to increase energy stores and produce health complications. Obesity is a state of excess adipose tissue mass. It’s either overweight or lean but muscular.so most widely method is  BMI  which is weight/height (kg/m2). Other methods for an obesity measurement are skin fold: thickness, underwater weighing, CT, MRI, electrical impedance. Both man and women's BMI range from 19 to 26 k...